Clebia Sousa

Actress

Brazilian Dream is fruit of reflection on Brazil today. We Brazilians are used to seeing the country as peripheral, subaltern, poor and third-world. But in recent years Brazil has experienced rampant transformation that has reconfigured its archaic social structure. Yet this difficult and paradoxical modernization runs up against problems that seem to be historically determined. In the film we ask: what images can capture this new country? And we chance a few answers, starting with the delirious fable-spinning of a nation drunk on its own progress. These are images and sounds that echo and, at the same time, collide with the grand founding narratives of the national mindset. Through these images we enter into conflict with the messianic vocation of a Brazil eternally pre-destined to be the country of the future. Bodies, machines and landscapes move and shudder. Until the final eclipse.

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Brasil S/A (2014)

Clébia Sousa was born in Limoeiro, a rural town in the state of Pernambuco, where she spent her childhood and teenage years. She is the daughter of Maria José de Sousa Silva and José Amaro da Silva, and has an older brother, Cleiton. Her mother was a hairdresser for many years, working to support her children. Her father, who graduated in Mathematics, was a teacher and a police officer. Until the fourth grade, Clébia studied at the Cecília Meireles school. In elementary and high school, she was a student at the Cônego Fernando Passos school, where she had her first contact with the performing arts. Still in Limoeiro, she was part of the Lionarte de Teatro group.. In 2009, at the age of 19, she moved to Recife, capital of the State, to study Artistic Expression and Performing Arts, at the Federal University of Pernambuco (UFPE). She participated in two auditions for "O Som ao Redor", the first feature film by filmmaker Kleber Mendonça Filho and was selected. In the film, she played Luciene. She has starred in more than twenty film productions.